- Mainstreaming shared ideals, desires and ambition
- A common integrated approach or framework would help to mainstream a set of shared Tobago ideals, a common development vision, shared development priorities and institutional practices within the planning and development process at all levels of government and civil society.
- The common framework would also facilitate shifting the focus of development planning in the Tobago House of Assembly from a centralized, comprehensive approach to one that is more directly driven by the divisions of the THA and that focuses more intently on development program planning.
- This shift will help circumvent the institutional challenges within which the THA now operates by creating processes for identifying policy synergies and for navigating policy conflicts, i.e., policy gaps, misfits and mismatches, utilizing a more flexible, resilient, adaptive, and innovative development planning pathway.
- In line with this new emphasis, the Strategic Development Planning Pathway is developed using a traditional prescriptive approach to development planning. However, it also emphasizes an emergent, flexible, and transformative approach by focusing on short planning cycles (one year and five years) to implement and evaluate outcomes related to planning decisions.
- This emergent focus facilitates resilient planning by allowing for adaptation and innovation in response to lingering social, economic, and environmental challenges, but also challenges that are new, fast-moving and precipitous.
